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    Think A Little

    … on breakfast sounds (poem)

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    Tags: maine photographer, maine writer, breakfast sounds, upright bass, musings, poetry, photography, jazz, just ponderin', maine blogger

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    Think A Little

    … on yawns from screams

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    Cry A Little

    … on what is handed down

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    … on grief, the invitation

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    Think A Little

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    Think A Little

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    Think A Little

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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